straight. children. away from a ground invasion he should come out with a six point. two. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops. what you believe it we don't have freedom of speech or. the brits for the right to protest as a public order. even the most. offended.

international news in this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day israel continues to shower gaza with rockets from both air and sea with the number killed in the strikes almost doubling within the past day the palestinian death toll reportedly exceeds one hundred around half of them civilians including women and children. inside gaza tells us what he has witnessed. the building which roughly translates as the shut sunshine tower is home to various media organizations and i.c.t. organizations here in the gaza strip it's known as such as one of the two most principal buildings for this respect it was hit at the weekend already once and today just in the last two hours it's been hit a second time two palestinians were killed in that strike we're hearing too many instance of collateral damage here just a day in the last while we've heard of the total destruction of the palestine

stadium israel which is a football stadium here in central gaza city we also heard of israel targeting the ministry of youth and sport here in gaza today in the last ninety minutes another child has been killed so the collateral damage toll is going up steadily the hospitals here in the medical professors except for the ministry of health is saying that eighty percent more than eighty percent of those being arrived injured to the hospitals here are civilians the overwhelming majority of those women and children and what is striking here in gaza is that the number of innocents being killed particularly children and women is of such a high proportion i mean talking to some of these terrorized gazan residents in the last few hours ahead of we were safely sitting inside our houses and all of a sudden rockets and bombs fell upon us from everywhere children women old men were

terrified in the pictures as a tool you can see the destruction we tell the whole world no place to save hearing gaza our house is a target of our playgrounds a target the situation is horrific. yesterday just after midnight something unimaginable happened i only saw windows glass and shells flying here and there the houses around were destroyed and the sole target of the house identical to this one followed by the destruction of ten other homes want food. i don't understand that houses are empty there is no one living there and they know that. but you know the injured are arriving in all of the hospitals around the gaza strip in the last two hours as airstrikes are flicked in all of the gaza strip all of the usual places that have been hit over the last few days the situation is very critical in these last moments. as the civilian death toll mounts so does criticism of israel for what many see as disc proportionate response well earlier i spoke to

paul hershon foreign ministry spokesperson who says israel does its best to prevent the killing of innocents war is a risky business it's a messy business it's something that we didn't want to be and. we were dragged into this i think you can see by the response of the international community that the first and foremost which is saying very clearly israel has the right to defend itself he's ready is operating in a way which is taking every possible step to avoid civilian casualties how do you account for the loss of save the children charity i will ask you here save the children charity they are saying families are running out of food and water eighteen hours of power cuts are making matters worse you are in effect targeting an entire population of any. no absolutely not hamas is essentially a synonym for for a double war crime they deliberately target our civilians while at the same time

with an element of pride hiding behind their own civilians we hope that we don't have to take this to the next step to the step of a ground operation but it's a very real possibility if some us were to stand up right now and say ok they will desist from what they've been doing for some years now and in particular over the last few weeks which is lobbing indiscriminately missiles and rockets into our civilian populations and if they will this is for a very very long time then there is no need to pursue this. and the bloodshed could get worse and as israel warns it's hours not days before it intensifies attacks on gaza the state issued a thirty six hour ultimatum demanding that hamas stop firing rockets into israeli territory let's cross live now to r.t. its leadership in tel aviv paula what are the attitudes both in and outside israel towards its plans to expand military action in gaza. well certainly be international community is warning tel aviv against launching any kind of ground

offensive although the latest word from the israeli government is a thirty six hour truce in terms of which it says this is the deadline for hamas to come to the party and if it doesn't it is going to go ahead with a ground operation now on monday the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon was in cairo meeting with egyptian leadership to try and hammer out the details of a cease fire he will on tuesday in jerusalem meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahu as well as in ramallah where he'll meet with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas from the information we have we're being told that a cease fire is not far away but we have no more information than that at this stage he's ready to put forward six conditions by which they say they will agree to such a truce and these conditions include a lull in fighting for fifteen years for hamas and other militants to stop firing into israel for there to be a cessation in terms of weapons being smuggled into the gaza strip and for israeli soldiers no longer to be targeted although it is always insisting that it would

take the right to follow and if necessary kill militants if it has information that they're about to carry out attacks against the jewish state is also once the border between gaza and egypt to remain open while insisting that the border between gaza and israel remain closed in the last year once egypt to be the guarantors of any kind of peace treaty between both sides now turkey has come out and accused israel of being a terrorist state that carries out deliberate killings on muslim people we witnessing a lot of wall mongering amongst these radiator ship. is one of the sons of a former israeli prime minister ariel sharon went on record as saying that gaza needed to be flattened like a machine but we're hearing from other israeli parliamentarians who've said things like all palestinians need to be mowed down but there are no innocents in gaza there's a school. thought that also believes that because the gazans elected the hamas

leadership everybody in gaza is potentially a target for the israeli army and the israeli transport minister went so far as to say that gaza needs to be bombed to the extent that everybody fees from gaza into egypt sinai peninsula now are in an interesting side development two viable palestinian faction groups hamas and fatah have put aside their differences and come together in a really show of unity saying that they stand together in solidarity against the israeli operation in gaza. paula thanks very much indeed for that live update there from tel aviv and from the palestinian center for human rights as a ground invasion is a turf and prospect for those who remember the israeli offensive four years ago. there is widespread fear among the pa among the people here the prospect of a ground invasion is very frightening for people because it's inevitable that the civilian casualties will rise rapidly. and people here are still traumatized by the

memory of operation cast lead which happened less than four years ago in which more than eleven hundred civilians lost their lives many many more were injured humanitarian crisis is imminent in relation to the hospitals and the supplies that they have i visited hospital stay with. this current escalation and spoke with the director general of the hospital there and he advised me that they. were just interrupted there on an ongoing basis. that. they are always short of regular medical supplies. because the situation has worsened their lack of lacking in such basic supplies as antibiotics i.v. fluids. very basic medical supplies that they require in order to keep this we're. looking after the palestinian people who are being brought in continually injuries and severely wounded so this situation is very grim in relation to the hospitals.

how much as you know rival palestinian polity before you sold the escalating israeli threat that's amid growing skepticism over the possibility of achieving a truce in the region. i think it's extremely likely that if a ceasefire is reached right now and the terms are the kind that have been discussed so frequently which is essentially calm for. the same kind of ceasefire that has been brokered repeatedly in the last couple of years. then that of course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly. as israel pounds gaza with air strikes in the occupied territories palestinian protesters clashed with israeli police israeli authorities a fired tear gas at demonstrators in various spots across the west bank in the

village of buddhists a mosque was heavily damaged in a fire allegedly started by jewish settlers and in ramallah crowds marched to support fellow palestinians in gaza. for the latest israeli palestinian violence has also led to protests across the world activism demonstrators in a number of countries of running to decry the deaths and demand an immediate end to the fighting. plus russia pledges to raise the latest offensive at the u. when the pressure of a public reaction and ongoing coverage of the situation both in israel and gaza on our website right now. well that's it for the moment i'll be back with more news for in just a couple of minutes this is not a life here in moscow. looking

at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia now it's trios come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail of place but

a nun and for all phones who brought their dia to life. five years ago about bill to dog kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother purse cable also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly updated their website and they're in touch with the busy ma the twenty four seven on the phone these. but children are the most important thing my own interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky has huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but truly just the taking

part that counts. cultures that so much about the taxpayers' money we're going to raise a lot of people at area china there's a that we transition to fell through another leadership to the last decade has witnessed this country transformed at tremendous speed. warnings today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are all.

news continues here in r.t. when it comes to speaking their minds the british are finding it harder than ever to voice their opinions the campaign to overturn a stifling public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people their basic rights of free speech. reports. brits are renowned for their sarcastic sense of humor and here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the very top right. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you so what you believe it we don't have

freedom of speech anymore and one piece of law in particular is a section five of the public order act one is to close this causing big problem what the slower has been used for is to particular why use firstly to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam which are against christianity which are against the quality of homosexuals so people who say that sort of stuff can be arrested the second way it's been used by the police. to arrest you if everything else fails they see being called house includes someone who insulted scientology by calling it a dangerous cult and wait for it someone who called the police. under section five of the public order there's no requirement to praise that the person intended any negative consequences from something they said are dead and only has to be likely to have caused offense so i could be prosecuted for saying or doing

something even if no one was actually offended but the who's probably got a very pretty quickly these on the receiving end of this law have had to live with the consequences to try to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out of appeal before costing the taxpayer a pretty penny i've been a victim to protest against islamist extremists who are advocating killing gay people and women have sex outside of marriage i was prosecuted for this alleged crime. really in a free society insults are not nice but they shouldn't be criminal offenses when it comes to defending free speech many feel what we're actually talking about is protecting our right. yes it's of democracy your sense of democracy some people. it's about informed debate about a whole range of issues should be off limits increasingly bizarre cases where the.

public outcry campaign to get a little change. whether it has people or it. must be the fact that so many people in this country believe that we. are right whatever we want whenever there. are. some other world news now and the european union have agreed to back the recently formed syrian opposition coalition the representatives of the people the decision was made at the meeting of e.u. foreign ministers in brussels and the agreement carries no diplomatic power but paves the way for each individual country to officially recognize the group meanwhile strain on the united. already showing on sunday a group of extremists broke off from the coalition saying they formed an islamic state of their own and they want nothing to do with the western backed bloc. hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the kenyan capital after a bus blast killed at least seven people and wounded dozens the bomb was detonated

in a. neighborhood of nairobi outrage was caused by suspicion that the explosion was the work of supporters of an islamic group linked to. kenya has been hit by a series of terror attacks in recent weeks often blamed on militia sympathizers. in cambodia for the final leg of his tour of asia became the first serving u.s. president to visit my arm are praising political reform there but insisting the country still has much further to go some experts suggest the tour is part of america's attempts to wrestle influence in the region away from china the relationship between the two superpowers is up for discussion in program that's coming your way in about five minutes from now on. take. for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. effort to reassure china it is not trying to do religious growth but to some degree control it to make it manageable yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is

a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty nine with tiananmen you'll see it the whole western media and the us government turn suddenly sharply i do support that opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. three crew members from the international space station have success to return to work after spending four months in space thomas reports. but i can say that i'm a zero five am has landed safely and it has brought with it the s.s. expedition thirty three crew with them sunny williams from the usa. where she got from japan and europe go from russia now you know making it from space to earth is an exact science but it's never routine in fact let me tell you a little bit about what happened beyond docked about two twenty six am moscow time

fire the rockets at four fifty eight which brought in nearly just under an hour long process of fall to the earth through the atmosphere from about sixty three miles in above the earth's surface in a rare pre-dawn in the dark landing in the. step where it's extremely cold and there was snow on the ground and that landing happened at about five fifty three moscow time now what happens is when that capsule hits the ground it launches a series of ground vehicles about twelve helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft that go looking for the crew they have now been recovered and are safely back and earth after one hundred twenty seven days in space well in space they did educational as well as scientific and medical experiments they even did maintenance on what is a space aquarium with actual fish in space and they docked with a commercial spacecraft as well as performed at three different space walks so

never dull moment always something to do up there in space at the international space station. thomas that more news in about forty minutes from now the meantime it's the lasers edition of cross to with a piece of the. download the official ati applications to cell phones choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from ott such l.t.v. is not required to watch all its hear all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time.

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wealthy british style the sun holds the president on to the suit was. a pretty. margetts why not scandals. happening to the global economy cause a report on. any. story. you could want. hello and welcome across town peter lavelle china has successfully transition to sell through another leadership change the last decade has witnessed this country transformed at tremendous speed and become the second largest economic power in the world what can we expect over the next decade from china many are wary of china's rise the real worry though is how the rest of the world reacts to that problem.

and. to cross-town china's new geopolitics in the twenty first century i'm joined by jonathan whole slagged in brussels he is a research fellow at the brussels institute of contemporary china studies in washington we have brian becker he is a national coordinator for the answer coalition and in san francisco we cross to drew gladney he is the president of the pacific basin institute and a professor of anthropology at pomona college i gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jonathan i'd like to go to you first we have a transition in china a ten year transition now we're going to have another ten years under this leadership what's the difference going to be. well i think essentially it's a choice for continuation we have a line appear of seven fairly conservative leaders and surely the guys who could really make a change in terms of economic political reforms have been largely sidelined and

replaced to for example the state council so i think probably we will see more of the same i really don't as this debate a lot of bold and fundamental reforms in this country in the next five or ten years ok brian where do you come in on that ok because you know we've everyone's been watching china china's rise you know when does it arrive. well china has quite a ways to go in terms of becoming a fully developed country as it itself admits i think that jonathan is right that the leadership chooses to have continuity they want stability they have a clearly defined and highly refined foreign policy which basically suggested what they're mainly concerned about is there are peaceful rise as they describe it but they're trying is under a lot of pressure because you see a growing pressure from the united states in particular from japan and from proxy governments or governments who may not consider themselves proxies but may ultimately function that way in the asia pacific so what the foreign policy and

what china's orientation is will be largely measured by the pressure it comes under and how it reacts to that ok drew that's a very interesting point because everyone's interacting with everyone else there is that is the pacific really prepared for the rise the the rise of china i mean it's the rise of its military as well we have the american pivot there i mean you're just filling up that ocean with a lot more ships a lot more weaponry. well sitting here on the edge of the pacific i think our perspective maybe a little bit different than my colleagues. the feeling that china is arising is definitely obvious everywhere you look from the street corners all the chinese newspapers but of course the chinese call this place. all gold mountain so they've seen this edge of the pacific as a place of long history destiny do opportunity and there are deep connections between the pacific rim across across this golden gate ok you know jonathan it's

very interesting and i've done it we've done a number of programs on china and some of the china experts we've had on you know it's not the rise of china it's the return of china we just took a break for a while. i think that is definitely the case between me to main question is whether china is going to be able to persist with this project of rising of developing and i think you're really receded people's republic of china hitting a lot of curbs what is essential for me in the first place is that it's economic growth model has become very and sustainable that most of the decision makers in beijing also know that this is the case they even know what there has to be done to reform and to balance but also most of the decision makers in beijing tell me that there is a problem with the leadership that the leadership is more fragmented than before cannot make it make up its mind about how it wants to implement these changes and that there is and i think this is essentially to stress that there is a growing tendency towards towards nationalism.